YZB first brought us a 4MB optimized Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and now they have patched Saturn’s King of Fighters ’95 to bypass its proprietary ROM cart, utilizing common aftermarket 4MB RAM carts instead, just as they did for Ultraman recently. Like Ultraman, KOF95’s custom ROM cart worked flawlessly as a physical copy protection […]
Dan aka Citrus3000psi has just opened pre-orders on what he’s saying will be the last production run of the Wii Dual: https://shop.dansprojects.com/wiidual-kit-pre-order.html There’s no official word on if or when there will be a follow-up product, so if you’re looking to get high quality RGB and HDMI out of your original Wii, you might want […]
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An unofficial firmware update for the SD2SNES (FX Pak) has been released by Matheus aka FURiOUS. A software developer and a world record speed runner. He recently announced on his github page where the files and details for this firmware are located. As well as information on how to use the new save and loadstate […]
Bitmap Bureau today made the surprise announcement that the Sega Dreamcast release of Xeno Crisis complete, and they have already shipped out all pre-orders. That is quite a feat considering the state of global supply chains. As with their Xeno Crisis release for the Genesis, a ROM download option is also available in CDI format […]
The Fenrir ODE just got a pretty substantial firmware update, with some bugfixes and a direct-boot option; After powering on, the Saturn will boot directly to the Fenrir menu as before, however you now have three launch options: A = “DirectBoot” B = CD-ROM Player / Menu Boot C = Boot to cartridge Purchase Fenrir: http://bit.ly/fenrirode […]
Kevin Mellott, creator of the Virtual Boy Link Cable and HyperFlash32, has just opened pre-orders on a homebrew link cable for the Sega Dreamcast. The price will be $85 plus shipping and can be purchased form his website: https://www.retroonyx.com/products UPDATE: A livestream demoing the cable can be seen below and the link has been updated to […]
A project is currently being launched called the TinyNES; A device that plays 8-bit NES cartridges and only outputs composite video. Here’s their main page, with no price or availability announced: https://www.crowdsupply.com/tall-dog-electronics/tinynes Honestly, I (Bob) don’t really get it. A device like this requires you to cannibalize existing NES or Famicom consoles for their CPU […]
After realizing there’s surprisingly still a lot of confusion over which scalers in the retro gaming scene have the most lag, I wanted to make a video that demonstrates each of the most popular scalers, using the most precise tools available! This video will also teach you how to run the exact same tests yourself! Time […]
Mike Chi recently released a firmware update that applies to both of his current scalers/line doublers: the RetroTINK 2x Pro and 2x Scart. Purchase all RetroTINK Products via multiple vendors worldwide here: https://www.retrorgb.com/retrotink.html This latest firmware introduces quite a few features and improvements: Full EDID readout to detect DVI devices every time the video output […]
